In December 2002, Founder Luis García decided to start a new company in order to apply innovative concepts and technology available in at that time rising mobile phone industry, to the more conservative space industry.
ERZIA won its first contract with the European Space Agency in 2003 for the development of a Satellite Link. Emulator to be used for testing and type approving satellite user terminals against the newly created Satlabs standard for DVB-RCS.
In 2005, ERZIA won its first ever contract to design and manufacture spaceflight hardware for the LISA Pathfinder mission. That was followed by a number of other programs and ERZIA started its career in Space
In 2007, TIRSO Group entered the shareholding of the company to reinforce ERZIA both with capital and industrial expertise.
In 2008, ERZIA designed and built along with MTN Satellite Communications of Florida, USA, the satellite communications systems for the new Spanish Antarctic Base Juan Carlos I. This complex project was the birth of a long relationship between ERZIA and MTN that culminated with the creation of Santander Teleport, a Joint Venture between both companies.
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